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Aerial view of the coastline where flood waters from St. Francis Dam break reached the Pacific Ocean, Montalvo (Ventura vicinity), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
Aerial view of the coastline where flood waters from St. Francis Dam break reached the Pacific Ocean, Montalvo (Ventura vicinity), 1928

Funeral procession crossing the floodplain after St. Francis Dam disaster, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Funeral procession crossing the floodplain after St. Francis Dam disaster, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

View from below, looking up at center portion of St. Francis Dam that remained after disaster, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
View from below, looking up at center portion of St. Francis Dam that remained after disaster, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

View from below, looking up at remains of St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections
View from below, looking up at remains of St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Remaining center portion of the Saint Francis Dam shortly after its cataclysmic failure, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1929

Description:
Remaining center portion of the Saint Francis Dam shortly after its cataclysmic failure. Water level marks are visible on the dam wall, starting with 1690, and moving up in 5 foot increments. Three cables along the inner face of the dam wall area visible, 2 attached to metal covers that appear to be designed to move up and down against the face of the dam within rectangular frames.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Remaining center portion of the Saint Francis Dam shortly after its cataclysmic failure, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1929

View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 13, 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
View of the remaining center portion of the St. Francis Dam after its disastrous collapse, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Remains of the failed Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Remains of the failed Saint Francis Dam, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Rope found at the Saint Francis Dam after its failure, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Rope found at the Saint Francis Dam after its failure, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Rope found at the Saint Francis Dam after its failure, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
March 1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Rope found at the Saint Francis Dam after its failure, San Francisquito Canyon (Calif.), 1928

Tractor moving pipe in reconstruction after flooding caused by the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928

Description:
The St. Francis Dam was a 200-foot high concrete gravity-arch dam built between 1924 and 1926 in St. Francisquito Canyon (near present-day Castaic and Santa Clarita). The dam collapsed on March 12, 1928 at two and a half minutes before midnight. The resulting flood killed more than 600 residents plus an unknown number of itinerant farm workers camped in San Francisquito Canyon, making it the 2nd greatest loss of life in California after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. It is considered the worst American civil engineering failure in the 20th century.
Date:
1928
Resource Type:
still image
Collection:
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
Tractor moving pipe in reconstruction after flooding caused by the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam, Santa Clara River Valley (Calif.), 1928